"The WELL is distinguished by its non-anonymous participants, and by uncommon policies.
Though more uncommon, policy-maker statements about equity were generally favourable and staunchly in support of equity-based policies.
In view of the increasing rate of admissions in the elderly, it is not uncommon for policy makers to assume that the solution to acute care pressures is to prevent older people attending hospital EDs.
"While it is not uncommon for policies to include an exclusion for alcohol -related accidents and incidents, the ombudsman would take a dim view of insurers who, through restrictive use of exclusions, implied that people were expected to refrain from drinking on holiday if they wished to remain insured," a spokesman says.
Such cases are not uncommon, with recent policy changes further lubricating the path for historic neighbourhoods to be trampled and towers to rise ever higher.
Coexistence of multiple approaches is not uncommon in environmental policy.
It is not uncommon for the policy developers to use reliability data to set standards for the number of appraisers required when establishing guideline evaluation processes.
The push for increased maternal/child health aid, as we point out, reflects state interests only weakly and over a very long-term time horizon that is uncommon in the policy choices of short-mandate governments.
It is not uncommon in many policy contexts, however, to emphasize indirect non health burdens as well, and in particular the economic costs of particular diseases or health problems.
In the realm of social welfare it is not uncommon for state policies to promote exactly opposite values, ignore the structural causes of service users' hardships and even blame the victims.
According to Robert J. Kane, professor and director of the criminology and justice studies program at Drexel University, cops opening fire on a moving vehicle is "not an uncommon problem," but policies differ among departments around the country as to whether a moving vehicle constitutes a lethal threat to officers.
